Many psychologists theorize that a condition called hybristophilia is to blame. Hybristophilia is one of countless paraphilias, or abnormal and/or extreme sexual desires.
Causes of hybristophilia
Although, among the possible causes we can find the following: History of abuse. Studies have shown that women who have a history of abuse in their childhood tend to choose sexual and romantic partners with a criminal and aggressive profile. This continues the pattern of abuse.
Hybristophilia (also known as the Bonnie and Clyde Syndrome) is a form of paraphilia (or perversion) involving sexual attraction to people who have committed some sort of "outrage".
In any case, there's no single, well-established treatment for hybristophilia, even though some techniques might be effective. Furthermore, cognitive techniques can help identify and modify thoughts related to the origin.
Hybristophiles are sexually attracted to criminals. This paraphilic behavior is also known as "Bonnie and Clyde Syndrome." Some speculate that hybristophiles are narcissist enablers who are attracted to power. Many hybristophiles have low self-esteem and have often been victims of physical and sexual abuse.
Hybristophilia is thought to have been behind Ted Bundy's courtroom groupies and his girlfriend-turned-wife Carole Ann Boone. It's also been used to explain the frequent love letters written to killers like Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, and Richard Ramirez (who even ended up marrying one of his admirers).
While the 1968 film depicted the couple's relationship as asexual and Clyde as a virgin until Bonnie very nearly raped him two-thirds into the film, in Brooks's novel Clyde is a man traumatized by the rapes and physical abuse he suffered by other men while serving his first prison sentence for robbery.
A case is presented of hybristophilia – attraction and sexual arousal to the criminal acts of another – in men which, to date, is a phenomenon that has not been documented. A sexually motivated female serial killer recruited the help of three male accomplices to aid her in her crimes and avoid police detection.
In June 1933 he crashed a car in a ravine near Wellington, and Bonnie's leg was horribly burned. She began using morphine to dull the pain.
Hybristophilia is a sexual interest in and attraction to those who commit crimes, a paraphilia in which sexual arousal, facilitation, and attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent upon being with a partner known to have committed a crime.
n. a paraphilia characterized by sexual attraction to trees. The person may have actual sexual contact with trees, may venerate them as phallic symbols, or both. Also called dendrophily.
However, attendees did identify certain traits common to some serial murderers, including sensation seeking, a lack of remorse or guilt, impulsivity, the need for control, and predatory behavior.
There's no basis in historical record for it and in fact, the impotency was a compromise. In the original version of the script, Clyde was written as bisexual (another invention of the screenwriters), but it was decided that that would be a bridge too far for the censors of the day.
The week before her 40th birthday, Bonnie was diagnosed with an immunodeficiency disorder that weakens the immune system and allows infections and other health issues to occur more easily. It turned out there was a genetic immunodeficiency that ran in her family.
Clyde's supposed impotence (Beatty, clearly, was playing against type) was invented for the movie. The original script instead cast him as a stud, shoving in a swinging 60s sequence in which he invited a male gang member to join in a threesome.
Passive hybristophiliacs “tend to put themselves in positions to be seduced, manipulated, and lied to by the people they fall for”. Aggressive hybristophilia comprises those individuals who actively help (typically male) criminals to commit the crime(s).
But Clyde's not a "lover boy"—he's impotent. He can't give her XXX-rated romance, but he can give her the thrills of a lifetime. And he can make her the most famous (or at least the second-most-famous) bank robber in the American South.
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were wild and young, and undoubtedly slept together. The group ranged from Texas as far north as Minnesota for the next three months.
At the time, Bonnie was 19 and married to an imprisoned murderer; Clyde was 21 and unmarried.
In The Anatomy of Violence, criminologist Dr. Adrian Raine says that, “Genetics and environment work together to encourage violent behaviour.” Therefore, it seems like there are various factors namely, genetics, environment, trauma and personality traits that contribute to the making of a serial killer.
As a lazy villager, Clyde has a relaxed, laid-back lifestyle and will appear friendly toward the player. He often talks about food and is humorous or naïve during conversations.
Two of Clyde's toes were chopped off in prison
However, another prisoner, who was serving a life sentence, took the blame instead. Later, to avoid mandatory fieldwork, Clyde had his left big toe and part of his second toe chopped off.
Born into a poor farming family with six other children, Clyde Chestnut Barrow was an attractive man with thick brown hair. Like Bonnie, he desired more out of life than the hand he'd been dealt.
Studies on the effects of LSD (& other hallucinogenic drugs) have shown drawings/paintings by "crazy" folks with much more yellow as the effects advanced. Yellow was said to be Einstein's favorite color as well as the favorite color of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
They never learn the appropriate responses to trauma, and never develop other emotions, which is why they find it difficult to empathize with others. Research shows that certain genes can predispose people to violence. Many serial killers experience childhood trauma or early separation from their mothers.